When Stockhausen heard music by Aphex Twin and Massive Attack, his response was: ‘Pretty good, but they should give up repetition’
This was an experiment with electronics, rhythm and repetition but each part had it’s own tempo. So this might sound random, it’s just not.

The music could be illustrating the following:

‘Finally young Gurp found his way into the secret Alien Laboratory. He gazed upon the strange materials when his eye fell on a small purple egg.’

Then again, I could be wrong

Alien Lab 2:32

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Getting pumped up for Christmas. This Manic Monday is exactly one year old. I made this in December 2006 for ExtralifeRadio. That was played only once during their christmas-special, but this year it goes into recycle mode and is played the whole month…
The R2D2 sample in the beginning is real, and taken from the album ‘christmas in the stars’. Very corny stuff!
Halfway there is not happening much in this tune. That is because it was made as a musical bed for Scotts voice to welcome everybody, thank me for this music, thank me again etc…
I am currently working on a 2008-version of the elr-tune. That will be posted the minute it is ready.

Enjoy,

Extralife-Xmas 2:12

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Before we kick off the Christmas Mayhem that will be raving all over the Schnauzer Studios, I present you ‘Kuchen’ a track that started in Switzerland 2 months ago and was ‘finished’ just this morning.

The minute I thought :’the cowbell could use some fattening up’, my DAW crashed hard and set me back about 5 hours. Apparently Ableton-Live has something against more cowbell. I’m going to look into this. Perhaps Pro-tools let you add an infinite amount of cowbell. This calls out for an independent test-panel.
but first, enjoy a brand new ‘schnauzer’…

Kuchen 3:38

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I thought I’ve reached the depth of the pit, but the bottom is in sight.
Too much songs are in production at the same time now and not a single change to make an inbetween-mix.  And everybody knows: Mime is money!
So here is the lamest manic Monday ever: Total production time: zero minutes….
To make it lazier than this I would have to make a song with a negative production time, anyone got some ideas how to do that?
I have even more news about this particular song, but that is for another post.

There is nothing wrong with your stereo, but you are not going to enjoy,
Mime Dance Party 1:00

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-inspired by Marco’s photo-composition-challenge-
This week I ripped a picture of the net and gave myself one hour to come up with a composition for it. Bonita’s dream was also a challenge like this but this time it took me exactly 1.04 minutes… and that makes this the most crappy and lazy manic Monday ever… A new depth has been reached.
My deepest apologies.

Steak with fries: 1:04

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This is what you get when you get stuck for 5 hours at an airport with a macbook with ableton live, and no keyboard..
I asked the airline company if they had a piano for hire. Which isn’t such a stupid question, musicians get stuck all over the world all the time! Strangely enough they couldn’t even provide me with a midi-keyboard…
So don’t blame me for this, blame the French.

AirportCDG 2:26

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This must be the weirdest Manic Monday ever. This started out as a loungy radio-announcement for Halloween. I threw away nearly all the beats and stuck a one take synth-improv I did a year ago under it. The only thing that reminds me of the original melody is the theremin, but that is very far away, and it turned out as ‘Silent Hill’ meets Tom Waits meets ‘it came from outer space’.

Nothing to Worry About 3:56

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***Philibreeze Update***
I allready told you about the 3 minute holiday, about the ukelele, and about the philicorda. This update adds 2 trumpets. Now I don’t want to post a tune everytime I add a single instrument, but since this has such a big impact on the song, and this is the jump the SRO wanted to make, I had to show you.

Philibreeze 3:12

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A few songs had a bit of a trumpet overhaul, and also a new one was recorded last Thursday. It went pretty well I must say. This song is so new it doesn’t even have a title yet, but it features a trumpet-player who has been blowing for 8 hours straight, what makes it an interesting listen on many levels.

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Cleaning up the projects as the trumpets are being recorded this very Thursday. Keeping my fingers crossed. This thingamabob I did for the Carnaval last year. The choir is shouting ‘Prins Noot’ which means ‘Prince Nut’, and that was the name of the man who used this tune to enter the room and get the party starting!
I remember having a blast recording out of tune trombones and small drunk-like percusson.

Prins Noot Mars 1:31

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